ESCAPE

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The Mission of Catalyst is to prevent and reduce the incidence of domestic violence in Butte County by intervening in the cycle of violence through crisis intervention services and community education Catalyst is a nonprofit organization committed to serving the needs of all domestic violence victims and their children regardless of ethnicity, citizenship, language, religion, physical disabilities, sexual orientation, gender identity or HIV status. Catalyst Domestic Violence Services P.O. Box 4184    Chico, Ca 95927 (530) 343-7711  (800) 895-8476 catalyst@catalystdvservices.org La mission de Catalyst es para prevenir y reducir el incidente de violencia domestica en el Condado de Butte interveniendo en el cyclo de violencia por servicios de intervencion de crisis y educacion comunitaria.

In These Middle Ages
By Ani Sky Phelan, February 10th, 2007 © (First draft)     
Ani Sky is a survivor of domestic abuse since before the age of ten. 
She is a client and beneficiary of Catalyst Domestic Violence Services.

In the middle ages
I’m better than I ever was.
It’s been a terrifying journey,
and amazing what it does-
And then it was I realized
that I’m here for all my cause
‘cause in these middle ages
I’m better than I ever was.

The more I knew, the more it hurt
to understand what I’d been through.
It’s amazing, over whelming and
humiliating too.
But I’m living in my happy place
learning from and for my cause
‘cause in these middle ages
I’m better than I ever was.

I hope you’re at an age where
you’ve learned want not to do.
Why would you try to typify,
when I’m unbinded, bold and new?
And in these middle ages
I praise and thank and pause,
‘cause in my middle ages
I’m better than I ever was . . .